The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-10-21

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~ Chicago & Atlantic railway, n Chr
go. q : quarter 20 eight o'clock Monday
xvoning. Conductor Parks was In charge
and Enginssr O'Connor and Fireman
Willstts were in the locomotive. 1ns
train wss made up Of two Pullman Sleep
&c. day coach. fruit and hakEage car
The night was dark and misty and sns
rails slippery.
The train he'd been out Of CHICAGO but
few minutes when Engineer Conrer
discovered his engine had broken her -
centric strap. A. this mishap 70 o. RE-
ournt occurrence. Conner c0ntinued on
Ma tripby working ono side OF his loco.
motive. The mishap lessened the speed
az the train to such an extent that when
A swept bv Boone Grove. . dismai prairie
station i've miles west OF this place ~
Was two hours late.
while tie train was running through
chs bleak strip Of country . heavy rsfris.
orator train, with tons o. fresh meat
packed in it, long line Of cars, was tnnn-
derinx along Al great speed : fsv miles
behind. John Dorsey was engineer o. shs
freight engine. and, y said ne
orders 10 losk our for the passenger
sr.in- Afser passing Boone o
Engineer Common stopped his train af .
water tank two and one-half miles west
az This village, or midway between here
and Boone Grove. A soon IS he had
Ieapsd from his engine he threw UP the
distant semaphors lamp, nearly hall .
mile In his rear. This Was TO warn the
frpieht that the express had stopped for
water. He had not been At the tank more
ehan two minutes when be heard the
freight laundering behind.
The grade q this point . very s.oep
and with slippery rails . neavs ss.an I
~ = furiou rate y was soo iaes
h train which Was sweep'ng afonx -.
tremendous speed Engineer DORSEY 40
failed TO seethe big light. ana MS ioco ,
Give tore through the log ana mist unsA1 =
crushed into the rear Pullman coecn-
Before tho collision occuF!eo co -.
his fireman saw the lamps burning q the
doomed trdan, but too late toaver me az
astsr. The two men leaped rom sneu
cab andethe crash came The engine % ~
freight plunged 90 far into tho rear fun'
mai that is upper works dropped on "
che center the coach The concussio
drove the second heavy sleeper into sn'
day coach. which was reduced 20 splinters
The platforms Of every car were sor
away and thus wrecked. The ends 2
each coach were broken like egg-sne.'s
The cars Of the freight train were nurie'
In every direction. Inc :
che engine we're torn away and the tends
thrown across the track. and pned up -
twenty rods about the prairie vefs sno'
sands Of pounds Of meal
There were Baker improved heaters Q
che express train, but notwithstsnuin
this supposed improvement over the dead
" stove. che coals lin the heater SCI nre '
che upholstery Of the rear Pullman. an
in fve minutes = names which ~ ~. -.
scarcely ,arger snan -l,"rsd ~
. urisk oa.-, - ss-.,----s.miry 4,
shattered eoacnss An. - a.. linn
cupan'.s ~ ~. -.a. .~,rra' ~
na'ea rs ~ III Mt var :
startiea sne 80 ~
tired -. -
nean.In - - .,.rh, s-srr,e. 80,
had escaped Win put si'en' 'rJ..s N.
hard ~ WORK urasx,ns Z 80,
sengers from sns'r s.~aea - :,
81 were tounn
tront snus - .es 49, ~ h-~-~ ,;uh-
p'nnsu ~ %. ~~r Il
s~sd ~ Bobem;an famiIy,lay between 3
h-errare-car and the day coach. A brah
rod lad been driven through his neck. q
4hrs INHALED be perished, while HE fam
Law writ hing IN IlXUxLuI 0kOuy D14lu
~,
TN. tr~in nan 81 about their work vi
~;Il. There was water close At hal
"a Il was dashed into the cracklil
80.
rhe railway officials claim that che
- ,,,t tventv passengers on the trai
49, ~ man who stood about the tra
Ssrasr.d that TIE screams and appeals I
r.ercv came from double that number
nrr.r beinrs-
-rr--- ~- a.. y.
nHr, 800 -. -.
Cosn n 49, $3.50 - 80
sto.1nes - 15y
a. ...s sss~ - h.~isa 80 4,
Nsr-~s N 1870 th-or~h sh~ :
49,. h.rse throrcn
so~r
hme 49, xh..s.c.
- T ~ -ss.ms.
or 49, $500 /;
20 sso.ns INC 4. ny
nc N ~ -1. -~--hc =
score o. more human o''"s "
pinned between tne seas~
Kours, Ind, Oct. I2.-Thsrs vss :
hcmian family named Miller ID tnS
.fated coach. They we're from Dundee,
and al were On route Tor Hungary.
father. mother and two daughters
ujs-a-ris. Behind the parents wero
.rL~- -. h>aww prli